Corrupted fonts

[Guest]

When I boot up windows xp home, all the writing is in gibberish. The start menu, task bar, icons, everything is illegible. For example, The word start is S=a question mark T= a pyramid A=a checkmark R=an X and T= another pyramid. When I open up the fonts icon in control panel, there are none listed in the file. However when I open up the Windows folder from the C drive, and open up the fonts folder, there are no fonts, but if I right click on the folder itself, it tells me in the properties that the folder contains 125 mb - which is about right.

Now, I copied all the fonts from my desktop computer onto a CD-R, and installed them into the fonts folder on the one in question. The computer becomes usable, but when I power down, and restart the computer, it returns to gibberisnh and I have to reinstall the fonts to use it. I've done this now about 5 times, and the properties now show about 600 mb in the fonts file!

I've run the Norton Antivius a couple of times (after getting the latest definitions) and there are no viruses on the computer. Thanks for reading this. I truly appreciate any help you can give me to get my system back.

George

 

[darren]

George have you managed to fix this, I have got the same
problem. It is driving me nuts. MS contains no information
about this but we cant be the only ones.

Can someone out there please give some directions for
sorting this,

Cheers
Darren

ps i use mcafee and this has not highlighted any viruses

-----Original Message-----
When I boot up windows xp home, all the writing is in

gibberish. The start menu, task bar, icons, everything is
illegible. For example, The word start is S=a question
mark T= a pyramid A=a checkmark R=an X and T= another
pyramid. When I open up the fonts icon in control panel,
there are none listed in the file. However when I open up
the Windows folder from the C drive, and open up the fonts
folder, there are no fonts, but if I right click on the
folder itself, it tells me in the properties that the
folder contains 125 mb - which is about right.

Now, I copied all the fonts from my desktop computer onto

a CD-R, and installed them into the fonts folder on the
one in question. The computer becomes usable, but when I
power down, and restart the computer, it returns to
gibberisnh and I have to reinstall the fonts to use it.
I've done this now about 5 times, and the properties now
show about 600 mb in the fonts file!

I've run the Norton Antivius a couple of times (after

getting the latest definitions) and there are no viruses
on the computer. Thanks for reading this. I truly
appreciate any help you can give me to get my system back.